Far fewer in the Western tradition confront the mix of surprise and distress that
struck Joel
Lipman's parents more than 40 years ago when they learned that once he finished law
school, he didn't plan to practice law.
He was thinking of maybe becoming a poet. "There were anguished conversations between
my mom, my father, and myself," Mr.
Lipman recalled recently. But he stayed true to his words. The University of Toledo
English and art professor has compiled a
body of published works spanning four decades

"E-mailing while sleeping, however, upturns the previous understanding of the mind
as
essentially quiescent, absolved of a participating role. The Sleep Medicine article
— prepared by Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui,
a neurologist at the University of Toledo Medical Center in Ohio, and two colleagues
— describes one woman’s
e-mailing while sleeping as the first reported case of “complex nonviolent cognitive
behavior.” It involved not
just composing messages, but also navigating past two separate levels of password
security to reach the e-mail software."

TOLEDO, OH -- In a joint press release Friday, the University of Toledo announced
that it
was extending its “UT Guarantee” full-tuition scholarship program to Washington Local
Schools, beginning with
Whitmer High School’s Class of 2009. Parents of grade point-eligible seniors are invited to an Information Night
at Whitmer on Tuesday, January 13 (7 p.m.). Kevin Kucera, UT Associate Vice President,
Division of Enrollment Services, will
distribute information packets and share details about the program.

"A college-town atmosphere is in the works for the area around the University of
Toledo. More
than $3 million has been invested in property along Dorr Street - most recently the
$1 million purchase of a gas station - to
revitalize the southwest corner of campus into a place where people want to be."

In Ohio's "solar valley," 10,000 new jobs have taken root. Companies, like Xunlight,
founded
by researchers at the University of Toledo, are growing fast, working with experts
to manufacture solar products and hiring
new employees to become "green collar" workers. "Last year, we grew 300 percent --
from 20 employees to 80 employees today,"
said Xunming Deng, a physics professor-turned CEO of Xunlight Corp."

It was only when a would-be guest phoned the next day to accept, that she found out
what she
had done. The 44-year-old woman, whose case is reported by researchers from the University
of Toledo in the latest edition of
medical journal Sleep Medicine, had gone to bed at around 10pm, but got up two hours
later and walked to the next room. She
then turned on the computer, connected to the internet, and logged on by typing her
username and password to her email
account. She then composed and sent three emails.

A needed state loan to help pay for the equipment at a start-up solar manufacturer
in suburban
Toledo has been approved. Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC was approved Monday for
a $5 million loan and a $500,000 grant
from the Ohio Controlling Board for its $13.5 million project in the former Delafoil
Inc. plant at 1775 Progress Dr. in
Perrysburg,

A woman in deep sleep sent emails to friends asking them over for wine and caviar
in what
doctors believe is the first reported case of 'zzz-mailing' -- using the internet
while asleep. The case of the 44-year-old
woman is reported by researchers from the University of Toledo, Ohio, in the US, in
the latest edition of the medical journal
Sleep Medicine.

Toledo's place in the solar industry is built around research that began 25 years
ago with
Harold McMaster, a pioneer in glass making who later became consumed by creating a
cost-efficient solar panel. Two companies
he founded eventually led to First Solar and Calyxo USA. McMaster died in 2003, but
his work continues at the University of
Toledo, which is quietly attracting some of the country's leading solar researchers
with the help of money from his
foundation, which contributed $2 million this year to create a new research position.

Cleveland high school seniors with good grades and low family incomes can get a sweet
deal
from the University of Toledo: If they can pay for their room and board, the school
will cover their $8,000 tuition. Students
prepared for the rigors of college should grab this opportunity and run with it, particularly
if they are interested in
medicine, nursing or pharmacy, all available at UT's Health Science Campus.

Imagine gathering up your computer's virtual desktop and all your electronic documents
and
using them on any PC you encounter - the one in the college science lab, a friend's
laptop, the machine at the Internet cafe,
that old Dell in your parents' house. Two entrepreneurs from New York City are developing
a way to do just that, and they've
set up their fledging company at a University of Toledo business incubator.

Andrew Jones hadn't seen anything like it. He'd been on mission trips to places such
as
Jamaica and Mexico before, but those countries have some luxury tourist areas. Honduras
isn't like them. "When I landed in
the capital of Honduras, my jaw just dropped because it was impoverished and worse
than anything I've seen," he said. "It was
definitely an eye-opener. I'm a lot more thankful for having running water now."

Many Cleveland kids never go to a college or university, so on Friday one came to
get them. A
University of Toledo entourage set up shop at the John Hay High School campus, taking
applications and granting acceptance on
the spot to hundreds of seniors bused from the city's public high schools. It's part
of the new "UT Guarantee," which
automatically awards four-year scholarships to students from Cleveland and five other
urban Ohio districts if they have "B"
averages and demonstrate financial hardship.

The University of Toledo is packing up a bus and heading out early today to help
get more
Cleveland students enrolled at the school. UT admissions staff, financial aid officials,
and college recruiters will make the
two-hour trip to John Hay High School in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District
to tell students about an opportunity to
attend college for free.

The University of Toledo is putting its money where its
mouth is in terms of economic development for the region. The university is transforming
the UT Science and Technology
Corridor in name and scope, and infusing $10 million to jump-start its efforts.

This fall, more universities are taking steps to increase affordability.
Benedictine University, a Roman Catholic institution in Illinois, is freezing tuition;
Vanderbilt University will replace
loans with grants; Boston University has expanded scholarships for students who graduated
from Boston public schools; and the
University of Toledo announced free tuition for needy, high-performing graduates of
Ohio’s six largest public school
systems. Presidents of many expensive private colleges are wondering how much more
tuition pressure families can bear.

The University of Toledo president, Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, yesterday received
a two-year contract extension with a longevity bonus of $150,000 if he stays in the
job through 2013. Over the course of his
now seven-year contract, he will receive $450,000 in such longevity bonuses on top
of his annual pay of $392,700.

The University of Toledo Board of Trustees extended the contract of President Lloyd
Jacobs by
two years on Oct. 23. Trustees voted unanimously to retain Jacobs as president through
Nov. 16 , 2013, according to a news
release. Jacobs has been UT’s president since the July 2006 merger of the Medical
University of Ohio (MUO) and The
University of Toledo. Prior to that, he had served as MUO president since November
2003.

The same country that may for the first time elect a black man as its president in
2008 took a
first tentative step toward equality with a quiet clause written into the U.S. Constitution
that enabled lawmakers to pass a
statute to prohibit the importation of new slaves beginning in 1808. Two hundred years
later The University of Toledo College
of Law is commemorating the enactment in 1808 of the 1807 Act to prohibit the importation
of slaves, a small step for African
Americans toward equality, during a conference titled "Commemorating 1808: Fighting
for the Right to Dream" Friday, Oct. 24,
at 6 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 25, at 9 a.m. in the Law Center Auditorium on Main Campus.

The University of Toledo increased 5.7 percent to 22,336 students this year, and
Owens
Community College rose 4.3 percent to 21,296. Bowling Green State University’s enrollment
dropped 2.2 percent to 20,228
students. Some of the enrollment gains are attributed to Ohio’s two-year tuition freeze,
partnerships between colleges
and universities, increased distance learning courses, more adults taking courses
part time or returning to college, and
increasing student support services.

The Stranahan National Issues Forum will feature Michael Barone, U.S. News & World
Report
columnist, who will discuss "American Politics 2008 - And Beyond" at The University
of Toledo Law Center Auditorium on Main
Campus Oct. 27 at noon. Raised in Detroit and Birmingham, Mich., Barone has written
for many publications, including The
Economist, The New York Times, The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press. He also is
a contributor to the Fox News Channel.

The public school students of Ohio's six largest cities are targeted by a new enrollment
program known as the "UT Guarantee." Students who meet the eligibility requirements
are guaranteed 100 percent full tuition
and student general fees at the University of Toledo.

Until health-care reform is taken out of the political process, it's almost sure
to fail, the
dean of the University of Toledo's college of medicine says. Dr. Jeffrey Gold will
discuss the issue that has become a hot
topic in the presidential race during a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. today in the Lucas
Room of the Dana Conference Center on
UT's health science campus. Dr. Gold, who also is the university's executive vice
president and provost for health affairs,
will avoid "doctor-ese" and speak in jargon-free terms about changes needed to fix
the country's health-care system.

The University of Toledo is planning a new intensive care unit for its hospital and
adding
wireless Internet access to most of the main campus as part of a multimillion-dollar
capital improvement plan. The ICU and
technology upgrades are being added to already announced plans for a new pharmacy
building and indoor athletic facility,
which altogether will cost about $51 million.

Area high school students find out how to balance a checkbook and cope with surprises.
They
may not be grown up, but today hundreds of area high school students are learning
how to live like a grown-up. It's called
Finances 101 and it's going on all afternoon at the University of Toledo. The class
is put on by the Northwest Ohio chapter
of Credit Unions. The goal is to teach students how to live life in the real world.
Nearly 700 students from 14 area high
schools are participating in the class.

More than 700 local high shool students began their walk through the 'game of life'
Tuesday
morning. Students from 14 area high school participated in "Finances 101: Walk the
Walk, Talk the Talk" at the University of
Toledo.

Columbus high-school students shopping for a college bargain will have a new option.
Starting
next fall, the University of Toledo will offer scholarships that cover tuition and
fees to public-school graduates from
Columbus and the state's five other big cities. "It's a tremendous opportunity for
our kids, especially in today's economy,"
said Kate Webster, a counselor at Columbus Alternative High School.

Many people use the phrase "Never again!" when discussing
the Holocaust. For Elie Wiesel, it's more than a phrase. It's his life's mission.
The soft-spoken writer and Nobel Peace
Prize winner who will give a free public lecture at the University of Toledo Oct.
30 survived the Holocaust and ever since
has done everything in his power to prevent more atrocities. A humanities professor
at Boston University and author of more
than 50 books, one of the first things Professor Wiesel did after winning the Nobel
Prize in 1986 was to establish a
foundation to promote peace and human rights worldwide.

Think of it as "economic speed dating" - a six-minute exercise in frenetic human
relations
between dozens of willing employers and scores of ambitious University of Toledo students
- with no emotional commitments and
virtually guaranteed matches. For two hours yesterday afternoon, the auditorium of
the UT's student union was transformed
into a virtual hiring hall, matching representatives of some of the nation's most
successful companies with young,
enthusiastic, and desirable potential employees.

I was sitting in Driscoll Alumni Center with a special group of people. They were
elected
officials, community and business leaders, prominent University of Toledo alumni.
It was 2002 and we were discussing what
leaders anywhere and everywhere regularly discuss: How do we transform an idea into
tangible results? The idea - the reason I
was hired - was UT's decision to launch a fund-raising capital campaign to help increase
university resources.

Dr. Jerri Nielsen removed a wig to show her bald head - a
sign to all that her cancer has returned - while speaking yesterday to future doctors
at the former Medical College of Ohio.
The physician, who received worldwide attention nine years ago this month after she
was air rescued from Antarctica, told
students she had a stroke just two weeks ago - and that the breast cancer she treated
herself for at the South Pole had
spread to her brain. "There is no end to your life until your last breath. We can
all do something for someone," Dr. Nielsen,
56, said.

She’s a best selling author, cancer survivor and Medical College of Ohio graduate.
Dr.
Jerri Nielsen spoke with University of Toledo students about her harrowing tail of
survival at the South Pole. Her harrowing
tale of survival reads like an adventure novel. But Dr. Jerri Nielsen’s journey is
far from fictional. “When I
realized I had cancer, which was the moment I felt a lump in my breast, I knew that
I was in trouble. I thought you gambled
and you're going to loose,” Nielsen.

Dialysis treatments dominated about a third of Angela
Heckman's life until a Michigan man the Toledo woman never had met started a chain
of kidney donations for purely altruistic
reasons. Little more than a year after her kidney transplant, Ms. Heckman is a diagnostic
medical sonography student at Owens
Community College, learning how to be an ultrasound technologist and help others in
need.

In the middle of all the negative economic news, two local institutions of higher
learning
have offered students a leg up and have paved the way for a community-wide turnaround.
In a nutshell, here are the offers:
The University of Toledo will give a full scholarship to any needy Toledo public school
student with good grades. UT is
offering the same deal to students from five other Ohio cities. And Owens Community
College is offering a similar scholarship
to TPS grads. This is exactly the kind of investment that will attract good high school
graduates to Toledo and encourage
young public school students to study harder. No longer can students and their families
complain that higher education is out
of their reach.

James Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, will be the
keynote
speaker Sunday for the eighth annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at
the University of Toledo. A lecturer and
scholar on Middle East issues and U.S. and Arab relations, Mr. Zogby is the author
of several books and a weekly column,
Washington Watch, which appears in 14 newspapers in the Arab world.

The University of Toledo on Monday unveiled a scholarship program that vigorously
recruits in
the University of Akron's backyard. UT's Blue and Gold Scholar Award will pay tuition
and general fees for low-income
students with 3.0 averages from Akron and five other public school districts statewide.
UT Vice President Larry Burns said he
believes it is the first program of its kind in the state. He said the university
expects the program to persuade about 100

The University is researching to find next-generation energy resources after receiving
one of
ten grants from the Ohio Research Scholars Program this past summer. BGSU is collaborating
with the University of Toledo to
use their share of the $8.9 million grant, over the next five years, towards bringing
in research professors and creating
next-generation energy devices. Of the $8.9 million secured for the two universities,
$7.2 million will go towards the
devices and materials. Photovoltaics, based on dye-sensitized solar cells, organic
bulk heterojunctions and organic light
emitting devices (OLED), are being made and researched at the University, said chemistry
professor Felix Castellano.

Public school graduates from the state's largest cities have a shot at a free education
at the
University of Toledo. As long as they show some financial need and keep their grades
at a B average or higher, UT will make
sure that 100 percent of the students' tuition and fees is covered. "We're a public
university and we feel it makes
tremendous sense to work with the public school system," said Kevin Kucera, UT's associate
vice president for enrollment
services. "We feel this is a great opportunity to be a leader." Called the University
of Toledo Guarantee, the program is
open to graduates of Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Toledo public
schools.

The University of Toledo now guarantees free tuition to eligible public school students
in
Ohio. The university is offering the innovative new scholarship, the Blie and Gold
Scholar Award, to high school students in
six Ohio urban communities, including Toledo. The program covers 100% tuition and
general fees for academically qualified
students who have financial need. The 'UT Guarantee' is open to public school students
in Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
Columbus, Dayton and Toledo.

The economy and the Midwest jobs picture were the subject of a Senate hearing held
today on
the campus of the University of Toledo. It's the first time there has ever been a
Senate hearing on the campus. Senator
Sherrod Brown led the meeting. We have reported the numbers: 159,000 jobs were eliminated
from the payrolls across the
country last month. And since 2001, here in Ohio, more than 200,000 manufacturing
jobs have been lost.

Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown held a hearing Wednesday to discuss strategies to rebuild
communities
in the Midwest. Testimony from area workers, local leaders and experts in Ohio's economy
were used to examine current
economic policies, job losses and the potential for job creation in Ohio. Since 2001,
Ohio has lost more than 200,000
manufacturing jobs. Ohio's unemployment rate of 7.4% is also well above the national
unemployment rate of 6.1%.

The University of Toledo and the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department will offer
public flu
shot clinics to help lessen the health effects of the influenza virus. UT will offer
clinics scheduled for Oct. 8, Oct. 22
and Nov. 19 from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. in the lobby of the Richard D. Ruppert
Health Center on the University of Toledo
Health Science Campus, 3000 Arlington Ave., Toledo. Persons under the age of 36 months
may receive vaccinations at the Shots
for Tots clinic sites.

The University of Toledo will offer three public flu clinics to help lessen the health
effects
of this common virus. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
about 36,000 people die and 200,000 are
hospitalized in the United States each year due to flu-related complications. According
to a news release, public clinics at
UT are scheduled Oct. 8, Oct. 22 and Nov. 19 (all Wednesdays) from 4 to 8 p.m. in
the lobby of the Richard D. Ruppert Health
Center on UT’s Health Science Campus, located at 3000 Arlington Ave., Toledo. The
clinics are sponsored in conjunction
with the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.

Bridges don't get much smaller than one carrying Ridge Road over a Huron River tributary
in
Huron County's Fairfield Township. "It's only 17 feet long. Even at 20 miles an hour,
it's like half a second to cross it,"
said Douglas Nims, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of
Toledo. But Mr. Nims and several of his
students were there to observe when the Huron County Engineer's Office installed a
replacement last month, and they will be
back in the future to take readings from an array of sensors built into the structure.

BGSU nursing students may be taking all their classes at the rival Rockets' school,
but they
are still Falcons. In 2006, the former Medical University of Ohio merged with the
University of Toledo to create the UT
Health Science campus. Students start out at BGSU or UT in a pre-nursing program for
two years and then they apply to the UT
nursing program and upon acceptance they take all of their classes at the UT Health
Science Campus. The program is highly
competitive; students must have a 2.5 GPA in order to apply to the program, but the
past couple years the GPA's have been so
high that the lowest GPA to get in this year was a 3.3, said Jessica Clifford, BGSU
academic adviser of pre-nursing.

History is dynamic, changing as the history-keepers change. The spin
may alter and the scope expand to incorporate people and events that were marginalized
at one time. An emerging story is at
the core of a new exhibit about people who live with disabilities. From Institutions
to Independence: A History of People
with Disabilities in Northwest Ohio, is in the Canaday Gallery through Feb. 27 in
the Carlson Library at the University of
Toledo.

For an hour yesterday afternoon, the hottest installation at the
Toledo Museum of Art wasn't inside any gallery space or period room - it was up on
the building's roof. And like any powerful
museum object, this installation of 1,450 roof-mounted solar panels had the ability
to amaze and inspire onlookers. Some said
it left them dreaming of a brighter - and greener - future. "The installation is just
awesome," said Joe Peschel, one of
about 45 people who toured the museum's solar array yesterday during the Toledo-area
leg of the Ohio Solar Tour. "I'm very
impressed that the Toledo Museum of Art would put that much emphasis on getting into
green power."

Floating 240 miles above the earth, the International Space Station is
humankind's biggest outpost and continues to grow module by module in size. Yet early
in its life, the station came
perilously close to being abandoned after a string of on-board computer failures.
The high-stakes repair job involved a team
of technicians and a dose of crisis-sparked creativity not unlike that which saved
the crew of Apollo 13 on their ill-fated
trip to the moon. The station's computer team included University of Toledo alumnus
Robert Dempsey, who went on to become a
NASA space station flight director.

It's been a busy five years for Dr. Lloyd Jacobs, president of the University of
Toledo. The
medical doctor gave up his job as chief operating officer at the University of Michigan
Health System to take over the top
job at the Medical College of Ohio. Just two years later, he helped merge that school
with UT.

The University of Toledo and St. Joseph Mercy hospitals are joining forces as the
medical
school works to add clinical education spots for students and the Ann Arbor-based
system launches resident education programs
at its Livonia, Mich., hospital. Officials from both institutions say that having
more medical student and residency
positions will help achieve a common goal: Heading off a physician shortage by keeping
more newly minted doctors in the
region.

When Dr. Michael Rees sits down in a crowded coffee shop, he doesn’t see thirsty
suburban professionals, or college students acting pretentious. He sees kidneys. “Look
at her,” he said pointing
to a young woman in black suit, with neat, black hair. “She could need a kidney, but
her family might not have a match.”
According to Rees, there are 70,000 people in the U.S. waiting for a kidney transplant.
And many of them die before they ever
get a chance at a new organ.

Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh will speak at The University of Toledo on “Security
versus Liberty – Seven Years After 9/11” at 11:45 a.m. Oct. 6 in the Law Center Auditorium.
“Judge Freeh
has a broad range of leadership experiences in law enforcement, the judiciary and
international affairs,” said Douglas
Ray, dean of the UT College of Law said in a news release. “He is uniquely qualified
to discuss how our country should
balance interests of personal liberty, the rule of law and national security.”

The University of Toledo has helped make renovations that will provide comfort to
children of
domestic violence. The newly renovated children's room on the second floor of the
Lucas County Domestic Relations Court
Center, 429 North Michigan St., will be unveiled during a ceremony at 11 a.m. today.

The University of Toledo college of medicine and another Ohio medical school will
use $3
million in state funding to establish a center to study, develop, and commercialize
drugs to treat disorders of the immune
system, such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and lupus, UT announced yesterday. The
former Medical College of Ohio will use
$2.08 million of $3 million from the Ohio Third Frontier Program to renovate and add
both laboratory and office space for two
research scientists to be recruited by UT.

The Lucas County commissioners yesterday appointed University of Toledo President
Lloyd Jacobs
and local Fifth Third Bank executive John Szuch to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority
Board of Directors. The
commissioners also re-appointed developer Bailey Stanbery to the board. Dr. Jacobs
has been president of UT since 2006.
Before then, he was president of the Medical University of Ohio, the former Medical
College of Ohio, before it merged with
UT.

The University of Toledo Jazz Ensemble honors Jimmy Cook with, “Celebrating Jimmy:
A
Concert Tribute to Jazz Legend Jimmy Cook” on Monday, Oct. 6, 208, at 8 p.m. in the
UT Center for Performing Arts
Recital Hall. This concert features the jazz legend’s favorite tunes such as “Wee
Dot,” “Anthropology,”
“Love for Sale,” and “There Will Never be Another You.”